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Forward Deployed Engineering Lead
$241K–$390K
New York City +2 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- New York City
San Francisco
Boston - Experience
- 12+ years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering.
About the job
Leads and grows a Forward Deployed Engineering team while personally building customer solutions and translating deployment insights into product and platform improvements.
What you'll do
- Recruit, develop, and lead Forward Deployed Engineers; help define standards and scale the function globally.
- Work directly with customers to design, build, ship, and iterate on technical solutions.
- Set engineering standards and turn deployment insights into platform improvements and product direction.
What they ask for
- 12+ years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams while remaining hands-on.
- Strong full-stack fundamentals across modern frontend and backend development, plus architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems.
- Experience owning complex technical engagements end-to-end and working directly with users and senior customer stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Built a team or technical function from zero; led zero-to-one product development or worked in a founding or early-stage startup.
- Worked on agentic AI systems or built with LLMs in production.
Pay
$241K – $390.5K (base salary; currency not specified in posting)
Tools
React, TypeScript, Golang, Rust, Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, Terraform
AI focus
Works with customers building AI systems and deploys intelligence into real-world workflows; production experience with agentic AI or LLMs is a bonus.
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